“Hell, no! And it’s not over now…”
“Germans?”
“Forget it. Obama’s on a roll.”
(h/t Michelle Malkin.)
Update: HotAir’s Ed Morrissey has the video, complete with awkward pause. More at Memeorandum.
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- In The Mailbox: 02.28.23 (Afternoon Edition) : The Other McCain on Hey, longtime pw readers…
- In The Mailbox: 12.23.22 : The Other McCain on Patrick J. Carroll truly IS a sad, embittered psychopath
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– Obama’s campaign people must be hardat it again, boning up on world revisionist history by reading Wikipedia.
– Everyone knows it was the Russians that dropped the bomb on Oahu, whats the matter with these people.
Come on guys. What he meant by “the bomb” was Aki Ichiro, Japanese pilot shot doen over Pearl, who his fellow pilot’s called “da bomb”
– Oh, and while we’re on the subject, someone should point out to him that there are very few Democratic election offices in Berlin.
Was it over when the Germans dropped the big one on Pearl Harbor? hoho
O!bomba
– I guess now that the Obama Great Golden traveling band and tent revival tour has been such a huge success here in the 57 states he wants to expand his outreach to places like Seoul Germany and Moscow South Korea.
We may be seeing the education of Obama’s generation on show, under test, revealing the inadequacies of humanities education since perhaps the 1970s. Obama apparently is ignorant of major historical events, but what of his staff? They’re all ignorant slobs, apparently.
The left has called Bush stupid for a long time: now we really know why. They don’t know what stupid is, since stupidity prevents one from admitting ignorance and correcting it.
Let the hilarity continue!
Was it over when the Japanese conquered France?
Who cares? It’s France! *rimshot*
(booed off of stage)
Wait till Obama figures out that it was teh Joooz who were behind the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Torah! Torah! Torah!
– The good news is him and his entourage will probably get lost looking for the Brandenburg gate in downtown Vienna.
though, who’s not to say that the Japanese were simply trying to liberate the indigenous peoples from American Empire?
There were only 55 stars on the American flag at the time “the bomb” dropped.
The quality of stupid is not strain’d
It droppeth from Heaven as the bomb on Pearl Harbor
Upon the place beneath
And don’t forget, Osama bin Laden hid out at Torah Bora.
“the bomb that fell on Pearl Harbor.”
Jeebus wept.
Let’s hope O! claims all the world leaders want him to be president. John Kerry did!
– “Torah Bora.”
– Yeh, he was really smart to use the Incan ruins for his hide out.
There were Jews in ancient Peru?
Maseltov, amigo!
Weren’t the Japanese just trying to free their countrymen from the US internment camps?
The japanese attacked us because of Abu Gharib and a lack of empathy. It was all about teh numbness to the pain of a child.
You guys are kookie. The Japanese bombed us for our oil.
Pat called it… The Jooooos brought the wrath of Tojo on themselves why they refused to give him back Danzig..
Hey, I think the proggies are on to something here.. This history stuff is easy when you can make up your own facts…
We had to nuke the Japanese because they were building… Metal Gear.
Comment by Ouroboros on 7/18 @ 10:00 am #
Pat called it… The Jooooos brought the wrath of Tojo on themselves why they refused to give him back Danzig..
Was AIPAC around back then? Blame it on them, it seems to be every progg’s red herring.
No one has yet mentioned the root cause – the abolition of slavery and our reluctance to heal. “Pearl” Harbor is obviously a reference to the oppression of all native (and imported) peoples by Whites. The “bomb” was most definitely black or dark gray. Thus the historical significance of the event is put in proper context.
You’re all too stained by the Original Sin to even see it. Thankfully we have O! to point it out to us.
Carin: “You guys are kookie. The Japanese bombed us for our oil.”
Among other things, including scrap iron and other strategic materials.
“You guys are kookie. The Japanese bombed us for our oil.”
I thought it was for our soy sauce? The Mexicans bombed us for our jobs.
“strategic materials”?????
All this time I thought they wanted Statego.
The Onion: Time Publishes Definitive Obama Puff Piece
Coverage of Obama will soon be parody-proof.
BBH, Haven’t you heard of Democrats Abroad? They even have their own primary.
I’m willing to grudgingly accept the expression as a metonymic rhetorical flourish — the bomb representing the attack. But it was inartful.
Was the Manhatten Project commissioned right around the same time as the AIDS virus project?
OT, but a lot alarming.
They should walk away from the deal I think. This is Barackonomics.
No, Aids Virus project was just after the first faked lunar landing.
Even his gaffes are politically correct; since he grew up in Indonesia, in the region where oil deposits, were found and sanctions were imposed against the Japanese for.
Even if he missed ‘Pearl Harbor’ and
“Tora Tora Tora” he must have learned
about the multiple attacks on the USS Arizona and the other ships in the fleet. Even if his history professor at Columbia was the Marxist Eric Foner.
Obama went on to say:
“Did we learn nothing from the American Revolution when Mel Gibson single-handedly won the war by running up a hill with the flag and killing that Lucious Malfoy asshole from Harry Potter. That was sweet! And lets not forget the French ya’ll. Mel had that French guy with him the whole time. Some years later the French guy turned into an evil cop and Jet Li was forced to straight up murder his ass, but he was there with us that glorious day at Antietam.”
BTW…wasn’t this colossal dumb shit, like, ya know, BORN IN HAWAII??
Barack Obama. Turning expensive Ivy League diplomas into worthless booger rags, one gaffe at a time.
Barack Obama. Proof Harvard Law has a ‘short bus.’
Downtown Vegas, more likely.
At least we can assume that he has watched Animal House. That is a good thing, no?
what an idiot, bomb/bombs, what the hell, looks like he will be mentioning Czechoslovakia
at his inaugural address…
oh, wait a minute…
Para entender Obama
Para entender Obama
Se nesecita un poco de espero…
Is that from that Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song?
– Which translated means “Ok…ok….so its 58 states….I forgot Quebec….jeeezzz….picky picky.”
– So let me get this straight. This Ivyleague Euroweenie is going to make a single trip over seas, visit Niagra falls in Baghdad, and the Pyramids along the Rhine, give a few speeches at the Tajmah hall in Berlin, and this makes him a learned, experienced, and wise statesman in foreign policy?
– Is there any wonder that people see these people as totally unserious and their candidate as a bad joke?
Carin’s Cat has more intelligence than Nishidiot AND Obamidiot put together!
Someone set us up the bomb!
“In this decisive moment in history, if we have the audacity to hope for change we can believe in, where we are those for whom we were waiting — people from all the states, provinces, and colonies; young people, old people, people neither really very young nor old; Muslims and Zoroastrians; male, female, and other-gendered persons; blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, Indonesians, and Hawaiians …”
All your votes are belong to us.
N O’Brain: “All this time I thought they wanted Statego.”
Japan doesn’t have much in the way of natural resources, particularly those necessary to support a modern military circa 1930 to 1945, particularly a air- and naval-centric. Their needs included petroleum, aluminum, iron and rubber.
For example, the dominant Japanese fighter in the Pacific, the Mitsubishi A6M Rei-Sen (“Zeke” or “Zero” to American pilots), while faster and more maneuverable than its US counterparts, lacked armor (i.e. aluminum and steel) and a self-sealing fuel tank, which, iirc, required both rubber and a petroluem-derivative. US sanctions on Japan following the invasion of China prohibited the export of these materials to Japan.
It wasn’t just the Japanese Zero Dread Cthulhu.
Their wooden cities were practically made for fire bombing. Once you put aside all the rape, torture, and butchering, the Japanese were very helpful that way.
– Not to mention the Japs were flooding the US TV market with cheap sets.
That Tears It…
He’s a plant. From whom I don’t know. Obama speech in Indiana: But it is wonderful to be back in Indiana. In a few moments, we’ll open up the discussion. But I want to offer a few comments about some…
He’s a plant.
obamadendron!
o, flowery hopeyness
we are not worthy
feets:
Indeed.
Everything a person needs to know is in “Princess Bride” and “Animal House”. Really. It’s a proven fact.
– You left out “Mad, Mad, Mad, World” , “Attack of the Giant Tomatos”, “The Body Snatchers”, and “Monster from the Black Lagoon”.
Whenever I think of Obama campaign staffers, I think of the control tower crew in ‘Airplane!’ I truly believe somewhere in Obama’s headquarters there is a portable fan that gets repeatedly pelted with shit. That has to be a distraction.
Probably smells bad too.
And since I want to kill myself while watching most McCain speeches, I guess that makes him Ted Stryker.
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#11 Bumpersitckerist:
See ‘Greater East-Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere’.
You’re welcome.
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#49 Dread Chthulu:
The lack of armor and self-sealing fuel tanks on the Zero were a direct result of Japanese weakness in building aircraft engines. Simply put, the Japanese did not have an aircraft engine of sufficient power to put pilot armor and self-sealing tanks into their fighters. So long as their pilots were sufficiently skilled, they could exploit the Zero’s advantages in climb and maneuverability and minimize the deficiencies.
Japan, however, did not expand its pilot training program early enough to provide sufficient replacements, and did not have a good air-sea rescue program to retrieve downed pilots. The loss of skilled aircrews without a good stream of replacements (and Japan did not have the industrial base to produce new aircraft models and get them into production quickly) doomed their air forces by the end of 1943.
Without air cover their surface navy was doomed, and even there they could not produce replacements for lost ships and get them into commission fast enough. Add the depredations of US and allied submarines on their merchant fleet carrying the war materials from Indonesia and elsewhere to the home islands, and Japan was done like dinner. Yamamoto gave a six month advantage to Japan before the US got rolling. It turned out to be closer to a year, but once Guadalcanal fell and the Allies began to roll-up the Solomons Japan was in a meat-grinder it couldn’t win, even in surface fights at night. From Vella Gulf to Empress Augusta Bay, Allied surface forces were winning night battles, and the Japanese trump card wasn’t trump any more.
Bumpersitckerist – if it wasn’t obvious, I am kidding.
Really – I am!
So Mikey, Obama is like the japanese manufacturing airplanes? His early advantages concealed his far greater weaknesses. His post-racially hopeful message didn’t arm him to answer inevitable questions on US and world history, knowledge of which would be presumed to arm him against repeating simple mistakes that everyone who has read and understood history wouldn’t make. His great skill at reading a teleprompter can’t protect him from ridicule once he’s forced to go off-screen and speak extemporaneously and reveal himself to be a dunce. Und so weiter.
“Japan, however, did not expand its pilot training program early enough to provide sufficient replacements…”
= The way I heard it, the problem was they couldn’t find enough skilled people that were tall enough to see out the windshield over the dashboard.
You left out “Mad, Mad, Mad, World†, “Attack of the Giant Tomatosâ€Â, “The Body Snatchersâ€Â, and “Monster from the Black Lagoonâ€Â.
Also The Big Lebowski.
Dude.
Mikey NTH: “The lack of armor and self-sealing fuel tanks on the Zero were a direct result of Japanese weakness in building aircraft engines. Simply put, the Japanese did not have an aircraft engine of sufficient power to put pilot armor and self-sealing tanks into their fighters. So long as their pilots were sufficiently skilled, they could exploit the Zero’s advantages in climb and maneuverability and minimize the deficiencies.”
Only when they were permitted to do so — The Allies developed tactics that were able to minimize the Japanese advantage, including the Thach weave. You play to your strengths and your enemies weaknesses — Wildcats had armor and firepower, Zekes had maneuverability and speed.
Likewise, we may have a “chicken and egg” argument re: steel — a lack of steel and other strategic materials would have a limiting factor on the quality of the engines — lesser alloys could be used at higher thicknesses. The same sort of problem arose in the German Jumo turbofan jets — lacking nickel and titanium, they made the fan blades of inferior materials with, predictably, inferior results. Likewise, I don’t know, off the cuff, if the Japanese had 100 octane aircraft fuel, which would have been another limiting element.
It is worth a note that the Japanese were upgrading the Zeke with larger engines throughout the war, including armor and more powerful engines.
Mikey NTH: “Japan, however, did not expand its pilot training program early enough to provide sufficient replacements, and did not have a good air-sea rescue program to retrieve downed pilots. The loss of skilled aircrews without a good stream of replacements (and Japan did not have the industrial base to produce new aircraft models and get them into production quickly) doomed their air forces by the end of 1943.”
A common failing with their Axis counter-part — rather than rotate pilots out of combat to train new pilots, they were permitted to stay in the action. On the other hand, I am not sure the Japanese were culturally prepared to accept that notion. I’m not sure what the British policy was, but American pilots were rotated out after, what, 40 missions?
Mikey NTH: “Yamamoto gave a six month advantage to Japan before the US got rolling. It turned out to be closer to a year, but once Guadalcanal fell and the Allies began to roll-up the Solomons Japan was in a meat-grinder it couldn’t win, even in surface fights at night. From Vella Gulf to Empress Augusta Bay, Allied surface forces were winning night battles, and the Japanese trump card wasn’t trump any more.”
Comme ci, comme ca — the American navy got lucky at Midway. But that does nothing to negate my original point — that the American economic sanctions were part of the Japanese rationale for attacking the US.
Dude,Condition!
– Most of the hoard of cheap TV’s were being manufactured in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
– I blame Bush.
– and Muntz.
Dread Chthulu:
I do not disagree with anything you said. The Thatch Weave was a great defensive tactic that reduced the Zero’s strength in manuevar. It brought the fight to a place the Wildcat could function, if it (or the P-40) couldn’t get an altitude drop. But armor and self-sealing tanks were weights Japanese engines could not bear at that time, and air-sea rescue (as others noted) allowed trained pilots to return to the fight, rather than being lost on the way back to base as almost happened to Saburo Sakai. The US and Allies were willing to put a lot of effort into retrieving downed pilots, the Japanese less so
The luck at Midway was luck. Heck, the Americans called their rendezvous location Point Luck. But it still remains – how many fleet carriers, light fleet carriers, cruisers, destroyers was America able to put into commission? So many that the ships that were available at the time of Pearl Harbor were either scrapped, sold, or placed into reserve in 1947. Or expended as Atom Bomb test targets. We put in commission 10 dreadnoughts, and the number of cruisers and destroyers? At least fifty for the one, and a couple hundred for the latter. On top of what was available when the war started. And ship quality was good, and crew training was also good.
Not every IJN ship was a Shigure.
The Japanese were still using the aircraft models they opened the war with in 1943-1944 when the US had gone over to new models that could out-perform those aircraft – even if the US aircraft had self-sealing tanks and pilot armor. Only by 1945 did the Japanese have aircraft models that could compete with the new American aircraft, and that was way too little, way too late.
Oh, by the way – I totally agree the economic sanctions got the Japanese moving. The fact that Britain was engaged in a life-or-death struggle with Germany, and France and the Netherlands (owners of Indonesia) had already fallen, was just more incentive. I was just piffling on about how Japan really bit off more than it could chew at that point, even with Germany being enemy #1
I thought Pearl Harbor played the randy neighbor on Good Times.
Well, back to the books.